Photo Gallery: Colorado Sinkholes

A number of sinkholes have opened in the Roaring Fork Valley in recent years.

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A sinkhole appeared in 2003 in an open field near the buildings on the Roaring Fork campus of Colorado Mountain College. CMC maintenance staff is using road-pavement waste as fill, according to a 2012 Department of Natural Resources report.

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A sinkhole appeared in 2003 in an open field near the buildings on the Roaring Fork campus of Colorado Mountain College.

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A large sinkhole opened in 2005 at the golf course clubs grounds at Ironbridge Development. Two golf carts inside the structure were lost down the throat of the sinkhole. View is to the northwest, down the Roaring Fork River valley towards Glenwood Springs. For scale, note person in white hardhat standing in the snow.

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First of four photos that show the recovery of a calf in 2005 that fell into a ground opening in a gypsum cave in the Paradox Valley.

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Second in a four part series of photos showing the recovery of a calf that fell in a sinkhole in the Paradox Valley.

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Third of four part series of photos showing the recovery of a calf from a hole in Paradox Valley.

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A calf was pulled from the ground opening in a gypsum cave in the Paradox Valley.